CEE Seminar: Generative AI-Driven Engineering Design Methods and Applications
Lecture/ Seminar
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Date
27 Aug 2026
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Organiser
CEE, RICRI, HKIE, SKL_CRCC, CNERC-Steel, PolyU-Tongji Joint Research Centre for AI Transformation of Civil Engineering
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Time
17:00 - 18:00
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Venue
Room FJ304, PolyU
Speaker
Prof. LU Xinzheng
Summary
Generative AI is becoming a key technology of intelligent engineering design, addressing the heavy reliance on expert experience, costly multidisciplinary coordination, and inefficient design iteration. This presentation introduces generative AI methodologies and applications in building structures, earth-rock dams, fire protection, bridges, and photovoltaic supports. The proposed framework integrates engineering data, domain knowledge, and mechanics through diffusion models, generative adversarial networks, graph neural networks, and multimodal large language models. It incorporates empirical knowledge from engineering drawings, design-code constraints, and structural performance indicators into a closed-loop workflow of scheme generation, performance verification, and iterative optimisation. Case studies show that AI-generated schemes can approach expert-designed solutions and satisfy preliminary design requirements, while improving design efficiency, code compliance, and structural safety across diverse project types and stages of real-world engineering practice.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. LU Xinzheng
Professor
Tsinghua University
Prof. LU Xinzheng is a full professor and the Head of the Institute of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University. He also serves as Editor of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, among other academic appointments. Prof. LU’s major research interests cover intelligent design of civil engineering, and disaster prevention and mitigation. He has been listed as one of the “most cited Chinese researchers from 2014-2025” by Elsevier. His research outcomes have been adopted by Chinese and international design codes, major disaster simulation systems, and structural calculation software, and have been applied to many landmark projects. He has received several important awards, including the Second Class National Natural Science Award, the First-Class Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China, the Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, the XPLORER PRIZE of the Tencent Foundation, and the J. M. Ko Award.
